Yik Wa Law
Biographic Data
| ID | 269580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yik Wa Law |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yik Wa |
| FAMILY NAME | Law |
| SIGNATURE | LAW Y W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5165-8193 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Competency-Based Training for Young Men with Suicide Risk: A Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial
Purpose: Traditional masculine norms of self-reliance and emotional restraint deter help-seeking, contributing to higher suicide rates in men. Young men online adhering to these norms face elevated risk, worsened by negative digital experiences. Interventions emphasizing masculine-valued physical competency may aid suicide prevention. Methods: A two-arm, four-wave randomized waitlist-controlled trial recruited men aged 17–30 at suicide risk from …
Men's mental health service engagement amidst the masculinity crisis: Towards a reconstruction of traditional masculinity
Mental health service underutilisation amongst men is common in the developed world, and Hong Kong is no exception. Some have attributed the phenomenon to conformity to traditional masculinity. Global and local feminist movements and social processes/reforms leading to female advancement across arenas, however, are forcing men to rethink and adapt to new gender roles by “doing”, “re-doing” and “undoing” gender. In the current study, masculinity i…
Public Housing and Household Savings—A Three-Decade Repeated Cross-Sectional Analysis
Housing affordability is a major determinant of quality of life. Despite the relatively high GDP per capita in Hong Kong (HK) (USD 460,000), about one-third of the population lives in public rental housing (PRH) because they cannot afford private housing. Existing research estimating the benefits of PRH or direct housing supports faces methodological limitations. Addressing this research gap, our study adopts an "in-kind subsidy" approach to esti…
What has become a burden in rental housing? Workplace location, neighbourhood and housing environment on household rental burden”
The escalating severity of housing affordability issues has compelled households to make compromises across various life domains in order to maintain a manageable rental burden. However, the dynamics between household factors and rental burden have not been thoroughly explored, and it remains unclear which factors most significantly affect rental burden, particularly among those experiencing disproportionately high burdens. This study employs a m…
The Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence on Postpartum Depression: An Updated Meta-Analysis
The associations between intimate partner violence (IPV) and postpartum depression (PPD) have been well established in previous reviews. However, none has explored potential differences between IPV subtypes or exposure times, which could help healthcare providers recognize the adverse impacts of various IPV subtypes and conduct comprehensive IPV screening. This study aimed to estimate the impacts of overall IPV and its subtypes (physical, psychol…
How Do Consumption Patterns Influence the Discrepancy Between Economic and Subjective Poverty
Coping strategy, Well-being, and bullying perpetration in primary schools: A longitudinal mediation model
The Opportunities and Challenges of the First Three Years of Open Up, an Online Text-Based Counselling Service for Youth and Young Adults
We present the opportunities and challenges of Open Up, a free, 24/7 online text-based counselling service to support youth in Hong Kong. The number of youths served more than doubled within the first three years since its inception in 2018 in response to increasing youth suicidality and mental health needs. Good practice models are being developed in order to sustain and further scale up the service. We discuss the structure of the operation, us…
Detecting suicide risk using knowledge-aware natural language processing and counseling service data
What Factors Beyond Economic Poverty Lead People in High-income Societies to Feel Poor? Evidence from Hong Kong
Divorce in Hong Kong SAR, 1999–2011: A Review of 1,208 Family Court Cases
Divorce has increased dramatically in Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia since the 2000s, whereas the West has seen a decline, suggesting there are factors specific to Hong Kong relating to divorce. This study examined a random sample of 1,208 divorce cases from the Hong Kong Family Court between 1999 and 2011. These marriages lasted 11 to 12 years on average, and most divorces occurred between the 5th and 7th years of marriage. Couples with a divor…
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Returns to Education in Hong Kong: A Developed Society with High Economic Inequality
Suicide rates in China, 2004–2014: Comparing data from two sample-based mortality surveillance systems
The biased MOH-VR System underestimated China's national and rural suicide rates. Although not widely appreciated in the field of suicide research, the CDC-DSP System provides more accurate estimations on China's suicide rates and is recommended for future studies to monitor the reversing trends of suicide rates in China's more developed areas
Roads less taken: Pathways to care before near-lethal suicide attempts
This study identifies the cultural values affecting near-lethal suicide attempters’ help-seeking behaviours. Six Chinese survivors of intentional near-lethal self-poisoning were interviewed and their medical records examined. Interviewees with strong suicidal intentions had less demand for healthcare services and were resistant to care. Non-contact with services was associated with perceived service irrelevance, unhelpfulness and personal need to…
Determinants of Poverty and Their Variation Across the Poverty Spectrum: Evidence from Hong Kong, a High-Income Society with a High Poverty Level
Chinese Adolescents’ Meaning-Focused Coping With Prolonged Parent-Child Separation
In China, 61 million children are left behind in rural areas suffering from prolonged parent-child separation when their parents migrate for work. Meaning-focused coping is known to play a positive role in adaptation, particularly during persistent adversity, but little is known about how adolescents make meaning during prolonged parent-child separation. This qualitative study investigated how adolescents utilize meaning-focused coping during suc…
Building a typology of young people’s conventional and online political participation: A randomized mobile phone survey in Hong Kong, China
Previous studies of the impact of social media on youth’s participation in politics are largely inconclusive. It is partly attributable to a diverse conceptualization of political participation and media use. Using a holistic definition of political participation and an analytical approach of building a typology of political participation, this study constructed a four-group typology for young people’s political participation in a randomized mobi…
Health and Psychosocial Service Use among Suicides without Psychiatric Illness
Although mental illness is a major suicide risk factor, some cases of suicide list no symptoms of mental disorder at the time of death. Studying suicides without psychiatric illness has important implications for social work because this group's service needs seem to have been overlooked. The authors of this article conducted a psychological autopsy study of 150 people who committed suicide and 150 age- and gender-matched living controls. Suicide…
Suicide with psychiatric diagnosis and without utilization of psychiatric service
The non-contact group was clearly different from the contact group and actually comprised a larger proportion of the suicide population that they could hardly be reached by usual individual-based suicide prevention efforts. For this reason, both universal and strategic suicide prevention measures need to be developed specifically in non-medical settings to reach out to this non-contact group in order to achieve better suicide prevention results
Suicide among adults aged 30–49: A psychological autopsy study in Hong Kong
The data show that socio-economical factors had a strong impact on suicide in the target group. Further research is needed to explore any positive qualities that protect the middle-aged from suicide. The prevention of suicide in the middle-aged requires multiple strategies
Determinants of Poverty and Their Variation Across the Poverty Spectrum: Evidence from Hong Kong, a High-Income Society with a High Poverty Level
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Returns to Education in Hong Kong: A Developed Society with High Economic Inequality
Building a typology of young people’s conventional and online political participation: A randomized mobile phone survey in Hong Kong, China
Previous studies of the impact of social media on youth’s participation in politics are largely inconclusive. It is partly attributable to a diverse conceptualization of political participation and media use. Using a holistic definition of political participation and an analytical approach of building a typology of political participation, this study constructed a four-group typology for young people’s political participation in a randomized mobi…
Chinese Adolescents’ Meaning-Focused Coping With Prolonged Parent-Child Separation
In China, 61 million children are left behind in rural areas suffering from prolonged parent-child separation when their parents migrate for work. Meaning-focused coping is known to play a positive role in adaptation, particularly during persistent adversity, but little is known about how adolescents make meaning during prolonged parent-child separation. This qualitative study investigated how adolescents utilize meaning-focused coping during suc…
What Factors Beyond Economic Poverty Lead People in High-income Societies to Feel Poor? Evidence from Hong Kong
Detecting suicide risk using knowledge-aware natural language processing and counseling service data
Suicide among adults aged 30–49: A psychological autopsy study in Hong Kong
The data show that socio-economical factors had a strong impact on suicide in the target group. Further research is needed to explore any positive qualities that protect the middle-aged from suicide. The prevention of suicide in the middle-aged requires multiple strategies
Suicide with psychiatric diagnosis and without utilization of psychiatric service
The non-contact group was clearly different from the contact group and actually comprised a larger proportion of the suicide population that they could hardly be reached by usual individual-based suicide prevention efforts. For this reason, both universal and strategic suicide prevention measures need to be developed specifically in non-medical settings to reach out to this non-contact group in order to achieve better suicide prevention results
Health and Psychosocial Service Use among Suicides without Psychiatric Illness
Although mental illness is a major suicide risk factor, some cases of suicide list no symptoms of mental disorder at the time of death. Studying suicides without psychiatric illness has important implications for social work because this group's service needs seem to have been overlooked. The authors of this article conducted a psychological autopsy study of 150 people who committed suicide and 150 age- and gender-matched living controls. Suicide…
Building a typology of young people’s conventional and online political participation: A randomized mobile phone survey in Hong Kong, China
Previous studies of the impact of social media on youth’s participation in politics are largely inconclusive. It is partly attributable to a diverse conceptualization of political participation and media use. Using a holistic definition of political participation and an analytical approach of building a typology of political participation, this study constructed a four-group typology for young people’s political participation in a randomized mobi…
Chinese Adolescents’ Meaning-Focused Coping With Prolonged Parent-Child Separation
In China, 61 million children are left behind in rural areas suffering from prolonged parent-child separation when their parents migrate for work. Meaning-focused coping is known to play a positive role in adaptation, particularly during persistent adversity, but little is known about how adolescents make meaning during prolonged parent-child separation. This qualitative study investigated how adolescents utilize meaning-focused coping during suc…
Suicide rates in China, 2004–2014: Comparing data from two sample-based mortality surveillance systems
The biased MOH-VR System underestimated China's national and rural suicide rates. Although not widely appreciated in the field of suicide research, the CDC-DSP System provides more accurate estimations on China's suicide rates and is recommended for future studies to monitor the reversing trends of suicide rates in China's more developed areas
Roads less taken: Pathways to care before near-lethal suicide attempts
This study identifies the cultural values affecting near-lethal suicide attempters’ help-seeking behaviours. Six Chinese survivors of intentional near-lethal self-poisoning were interviewed and their medical records examined. Interviewees with strong suicidal intentions had less demand for healthcare services and were resistant to care. Non-contact with services was associated with perceived service irrelevance, unhelpfulness and personal need to…
Determinants of Poverty and Their Variation Across the Poverty Spectrum: Evidence from Hong Kong, a High-Income Society with a High Poverty Level
Divorce in Hong Kong SAR, 1999–2011: A Review of 1,208 Family Court Cases
Divorce has increased dramatically in Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia since the 2000s, whereas the West has seen a decline, suggesting there are factors specific to Hong Kong relating to divorce. This study examined a random sample of 1,208 divorce cases from the Hong Kong Family Court between 1999 and 2011. These marriages lasted 11 to 12 years on average, and most divorces occurred between the 5th and 7th years of marriage. Couples with a divor…
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Returns to Education in Hong Kong: A Developed Society with High Economic Inequality
What Factors Beyond Economic Poverty Lead People in High-income Societies to Feel Poor? Evidence from Hong Kong
The Opportunities and Challenges of the First Three Years of Open Up, an Online Text-Based Counselling Service for Youth and Young Adults
We present the opportunities and challenges of Open Up, a free, 24/7 online text-based counselling service to support youth in Hong Kong. The number of youths served more than doubled within the first three years since its inception in 2018 in response to increasing youth suicidality and mental health needs. Good practice models are being developed in order to sustain and further scale up the service. We discuss the structure of the operation, us…
Detecting suicide risk using knowledge-aware natural language processing and counseling service data
How Do Consumption Patterns Influence the Discrepancy Between Economic and Subjective Poverty
Coping strategy, Well-being, and bullying perpetration in primary schools: A longitudinal mediation model
The Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence on Postpartum Depression: An Updated Meta-Analysis
The associations between intimate partner violence (IPV) and postpartum depression (PPD) have been well established in previous reviews. However, none has explored potential differences between IPV subtypes or exposure times, which could help healthcare providers recognize the adverse impacts of various IPV subtypes and conduct comprehensive IPV screening. This study aimed to estimate the impacts of overall IPV and its subtypes (physical, psychol…
Men's mental health service engagement amidst the masculinity crisis: Towards a reconstruction of traditional masculinity
Mental health service underutilisation amongst men is common in the developed world, and Hong Kong is no exception. Some have attributed the phenomenon to conformity to traditional masculinity. Global and local feminist movements and social processes/reforms leading to female advancement across arenas, however, are forcing men to rethink and adapt to new gender roles by “doing”, “re-doing” and “undoing” gender. In the current study, masculinity i…
Public Housing and Household Savings—A Three-Decade Repeated Cross-Sectional Analysis
Housing affordability is a major determinant of quality of life. Despite the relatively high GDP per capita in Hong Kong (HK) (USD 460,000), about one-third of the population lives in public rental housing (PRH) because they cannot afford private housing. Existing research estimating the benefits of PRH or direct housing supports faces methodological limitations. Addressing this research gap, our study adopts an "in-kind subsidy" approach to esti…
What has become a burden in rental housing? Workplace location, neighbourhood and housing environment on household rental burden”
The escalating severity of housing affordability issues has compelled households to make compromises across various life domains in order to maintain a manageable rental burden. However, the dynamics between household factors and rental burden have not been thoroughly explored, and it remains unclear which factors most significantly affect rental burden, particularly among those experiencing disproportionately high burdens. This study employs a m…
Competency-Based Training for Young Men with Suicide Risk: A Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial
Purpose: Traditional masculine norms of self-reliance and emotional restraint deter help-seeking, contributing to higher suicide rates in men. Young men online adhering to these norms face elevated risk, worsened by negative digital experiences. Interventions emphasizing masculine-valued physical competency may aid suicide prevention. Methods: A two-arm, four-wave randomized waitlist-controlled trial recruited men aged 17–30 at suicide risk from …
Medicine (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Poison control (8 works) · Suicide prevention (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Demography (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Medical emergency (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)